Islamic Studies Resources

Library Catalogues: NUsearch  Hollis  SOLO  Library Hub UK  WorldCat  Arabic Discovery

Encyclopedias and Reference Works for Islamic Studies

EI1 Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936. Book in UoN library.

EI2 Encyclopaedia of Islam, New ed., 1960 [1954] - 2009. Book in UoN library and online with login.

EI3 Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third edition, 2007—. Online with login.

EIr Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1985—. Brill open access.   Old open access.   Internet Archive

EQ Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, 2005. Book in UoN library and online with login.

ER2 Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. 2005. Book in UoN library and online with login

EJIW Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Online with login.

CMR1 Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (600-1500) Leiden: Brill, 2009-2013. Online with login.

CMR2 Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (1500-1900) Leiden: Brill, 2014-. Online with login.

Islamic Studies - Oxford Bibliographies. Online with login

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Leiden: Brill, 2003-2007. Book in UoN library.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, 2009. Book in UoN library.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, 2013. Online with UoN login.

SEP Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Open access.

TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Turkish) Open access

 

Bibliographical tools

ATLA religion database. Online with login.

Daiber, Hans. Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1999.Book in UoN library.

Daiber, Hans. Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy: Supplement. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Book in UoN library.

Index Islamicus. Online with login.

Islamic Philosophy Online, open access.

Islamic Studies - Oxford Bibliographies. Online with login.

To locate citations of published works: Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar (Neither captures everything).


Maps

Historical Atlas of Islam, ed. Hugh Kennedy. Online with login.

The Gulf/2000 project, maps from the Levant to Afghanistan, open access


Calendar Converters

calendarhome.com (with other world calendars)

Calendar Converter for Near East Historians

Islamic Finder [link]

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. The Islamic and Christian Calendars AD 622-2222 (AH 1-1650). Reading, UK: Garnet, 1995. (1st ed. 1963).


Transliteration of Arabic to Latin characters [pdf]


Theses and Dissertations

Index to Theses in the United Kingdom and Ireland (inside UoN only)

Electronic Theses Online (UK theses via British LIbrary, open search, but requires registration to access materials)

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I (UoN login, search for USA, Canada, and some others)

ProQuest Open Access Dissertations (USA)

UMI ProQuest Dissertation Express (purchase US dissertations)

McGill dissertations and theses (open access)

Dissertation Reviews: Islamic Studies


Pew Foundation Reports: 1) The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity. 2012.  2) The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society 2013


General Islam information site maintained by Alan Godlas at the University of Georgia. [link]


The Oxford English Dictionary, UoN login, OED url